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Inner city youth benefit from new initiative Two-year program teaches skills and highlights healthy living. March 24, 2009, Grouse Mountain, North Vancouver, B.C. – During the past month, 75 inner city youth have risen to new heights thanks to a tailored snowboarding program called Zero Ceiling at Grouse Mountain. The resort has partnered with Zero Ceiling and 2010 Legacies Now to provide this

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$172,000 Raised for BC Children's Hospital Grind For Kids 2010 campaign raises a mountain of money for sick kids in BC Wednesday June 22 marked the official kick off for the 2011 Grind For Kids campaign. Grouse Mountain President Stuart McLaughlin presented the cheque for the $172,000 raised in 2010 to Stephan Forgacs and Shelley Sainsbury from BC Children’s Hospital. Also on hand was former

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Happy Canada Day! A true north experience at the Peak of Vancouver This Canada Day celebrate by taking in the amazing view of our home and native land from the Peak of Vancouver. Want to feel in tune with your Canadian forefathers? Take in a World Famous Lumberjack Show and visit with Grinder and Coola our resident Grizzly bears in their mountain habitat. Don’t miss our other uniquely British

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ClearlyContacts.ca Grouse Grind Mountain Run Is Less Than 2 Weeks Away  A New Corporate Challenge Is Issued To Local Businesses Making This Year's Event Bigger and Better Than Ever  September 11, 2012. North Vancouver, B.C. – The summer of 2012 has seen another great season on the Grouse Grind and registration for the 22nd ClearlyContacts.ca Grouse Grind Mountain Run taking place on Saturday

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Grouse Mountain Moment Contest - First Daily Winner Congratulations to Deborah Goldbloom from Vancouver! Deborah [hearts] Grouse Mountain because... "I've had many wonderful times on Grouse Mountain over the years but my "Best" moment involves an encounter a couple of years ago with an aggressive Grouse on the Grind (actually the end of the BCMC trail where it comes out onto the top of the Cut

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Bears Build Bed Close to hibernation now! On Thursday morning, November 18th, Grinder and Coola suddenly decided it was time to build their hibernation bed! We had provided them with lots of nice soft fir branches a couple weeks before hand but they had gone largely ignored until today. The trigger for their bed building was probably our dropping temperatures and our first serious dump of snow

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The North Shore's Longest Winter Season Just Got Even Longer (April 27, 2012) Winter continues at The Peak of Vancouver with a new tube park!  NOTE: As of June 2012, the Tube Park is not available.Mother Nature did not disappoint this winter at the Peak of Vancouver delivering over 11 meters of snow to Grouse Mountain during the course of the season. With an impressive base still on the slopes

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How I Came to Be Ready for Seek the Peak... "Oh how the times have changed." In the beginning.Two and a half years ago, while tipping the scale at just over the 230lbs. mark, the mere thought of jogging around the block (never mind running) would leave me short of breath. Now, when I heard of the opportunity to conquer a run from the ocean to the peak of Vancouver, a feeling of excitement seems

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Common Ravens - Frequent Visitors to Grizzly Bear Refuge Every day around feeding time we see black wings approaching the Grizzly Bear Habitat.  Several Common Ravens, Corvus corax, fly in to see what's on the menu today.  In the wild it is not uncommon to see a murder of Common Ravens following Grizzly Bears around and picking up their leftovers.  They are bold enough to even steal the food

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B.C. couple in their 80s break records by reaching the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro  October 3, 2012.Vancouver, B.C. - Local hiking enthusiasts Esther and Martin Kafer have successfully reached the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, making them the oldest couple - 84 and 85 years old - known to have achieved this feat! The couple embarked on the trek up 19,354 ft. on Africa's tallest mountain as part of

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